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The practical mastery of the logic or of the imminent necessity of a game - a mastery acquired by experience of the game, and one which works outside conscious control and discourse (in the way that. for instance, techniques of the body do).
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Bourdieu (1990) In Other Words p.60

 

Pierre Bourdieu

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